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The return of "GDM in French"

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The return of "GDM in French"

#1 Post by Oracle »

Hi...

I tried some configs, and I noticed something very strange...
At boot time, when GDM is starting, it's in English. But if I log on as root in a console, and I stop and restart GDM, it's in French...

Can somebody explain this strange situation ? How can I set up the thing to start immediatly in French ?

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#2 Post by lacek »

It is because gdm probably feeds on the LC_CTYPE enviromental variable, which is set for you (you can see if it is set really with the 'locale' command).
If GDM doesn't have a setting according to the locale in some 'control center', you can edit the /etc/init. d/gdm file by hand, putting this line to the beginning of the file:

export LC_CTYPE=fr_FR
(or whatever locale you set up -- you can change it with dpkg-reconfigure locales)

It is a quickHack(TM) approach, but it should work...

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#3 Post by Oracle »

Sorry, but it doesn't... I've done the modification following your instructions, but GDM is still in English at boot time...

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#4 Post by lacek »

If you export the LC_ALL variable to your locale, gdm will speak that language. The only question left is that which enviromental variable affects gdm, since LANG and LC_CTYPE doesn't...

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